MSNBC to Leave Redmond?

If it happens, and Kurtz indicates it’s a done deal, then presumably the operation would move almost half of the 300-person staff off the Redmond campus of Microsoft. Under the plan, MSNBC.com would be rebranded as NBCNews.com.

The cable TV version of the operation is known as a liberal-thinking counterpart to Fox News, with program hosts like Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz.

It wasn’t much of a media empire, but it was nice to have a national media outlet down the road from Seattle. Now, it looks like, even that will go away.